Morsi to purge Egyptian judiciary

Legal sources confirmed that the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi looks forward to large scale changes in the judicial sector after comprehensive changes in the military after the appointment of the Vice-President from the judicial sector, a counselor Mahmoud Mekki. The new proposals aim at gaining the approval for the Judicial Authority Law which reduces the retirement age for judges from 70 years to 65 years to overthrow the Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud,who was also an attorney general under the previous regime. This law shall also overthrow head of the Judges Club, Ahmed al-Zend. Sources who refused to be identified  revealed to Arabstoday that major changes may occur  among  judges pointing out that the President has the right to do that but it would be considered as a deviation of power because it will be a decision to oust certain judges. The sources added that these decisions will cleanse the judiciary from any previous figures that belong to the earlier era and he may repeat the same approach taken with the military. Spokesman for the presidency Yasser Ali said that: "The presidency has nothing to do with the law and is not able to fire the Attorney General yet the president has the right to appoint a new vice president upon the departure of the current Attorney General." Yasser Ali told Arabstoday that the presidency works for the public interest and it shall not disrupt the system of the institutions, as some claim, noting that the president’s decisions do not target specific people, but he intends to pump new blood into the Egyptian entities. Politics professor Ahmad Abed Rabbo told Arabstoday that the Egyptian street widely supports the president's decisions related to the military institution which made him demand the cleansing of the rest of the state institutions such the judiciary and the internal and the foreign institutions and even to overthrow the Attorney General. Abed Rabbo added: "The people want stability and new leaders instead of those who were under the former regime.” The political science professor explained that President Morsi has all authority and legislation to enable him to be the actual president of the country and to take the appropriate decisions in favor of the Egyptian people. The President has made huge changes within the military institutions. He fired Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former Minister of Defense and head of the military, as well as Sami Annan, Chief of Staff of the Army, and appointed them as military advisers in the presidency.